sebaceous follicle

Questions about sebaceous follicle

What does sebaceous follicle mean?

sebaceous follicle means "a cutaneous gland that secretes sebum (usually into a hair follicle) for lubricating hair and skin".

What is another word for sebaceous follicle?

Close synonyms include sebaceous gland, glandulae sebaceae. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sebaceous follicle a common word?

sebaceous follicle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.